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Serbia's tabloids know who killed Zoran Djindjic, the Prime Minister assassinated on a Belgrade street just over a year ago. It was Big Tobacco, angry at his planned sale of the lucrative state-owned tobacco company. Or it was Britain's sas, punishing him for asserting too much independence...
Died. Nicolai Ghiaurov, 74, Bulgarian bass whose warm, rich voice and striking stage presence carried him through almost a half-century of opera stardom; of heart failure; in Modena, Italy. He debuted at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1965 as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust and went on...
DIED. NICOLAI GHIAUROV, 74, Bulgarian bass whose warm, rich voice and striking stage presence carried him through almost half a century of opera stardom; in Modena, Italy. Ghiaurov made his debut in 1955 as Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and went on to such signature roles as...
Russia (32,285 homicides in 2002) can lay claim to a worse murder rate than our own, and Boris Akunin takes full advantage of it. His fiendishly witty Murder on the Leviathan (Random House; 223 pages) begins with 10 of them: the entire household of one Lord Littleby has been...
President Vladimir Putin may be a nuisance to the West, but Russians approve of him. Russia is experiencing economic growth, is paying its debts and is a growing influence in world politics. Compared with the era of Boris Yeltsin, today Russia shows overall improvement. And certain individuals who became billionaires...